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THE GIANT SUNDAE AND NATIONAL DAIRY MONTH

June is National Dairy Month. Like National Ice Cream Month (July), which gives you the freedom to eat as much ice cream as you want and call it “celebrating,” National Dairy Month means you get to indulge in all your favorite dairy products without worrying about what people might think. The good news is, that includes ice cream, which really means you get to eat lots of ice cream in June AND July!

To celebrate National Dairy Month, the Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association built a giant ice cream sundae on the steps of Pennsylvania’s Capitol yesterday. Like last year, the Dairy Association asked Turkey Hill to donate the 90 gallons of vanilla ice cream that was used to make the sundae and we happily obliged.

Below are a few photos of the action. Enjoy!

The Turkey Hill Giant Cow was on hand to help draw some attention. She’s good at that.

Members of the sundae-making team built the giant sundae from 30 three-gallon containers of Turkey Hill ice cream. It wasn’t easy to get that ice cream out in one piece. Good thing it was a hot day! (Actually, is that a good thing for a giant ice cream sundae?)

A giant ball of cherries was created to adorn the top of the sundae.

Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Dennis Wolff and the Pennsylvania Dairy Princesses placed the cherries on the sundae before it was topped with all sorts of other goodies.

Secretary Wolff and the team give the sundae its finishing touches. The sundae was topped with 10 gallons of chocolate fudge, 10 gallons of strawberries and 30 pounds of chopped pecans. Afterwards, the crowd lined up for a taste. Each person got a nice-sized bowl of ice cream and there was still plenty left over for seconds!

Now you are really talking Turkey (Hill). That is something the elected officials dig into and work together on instead of party politics. That is a win-win party for both parties. It reminds me of my teen years going to Jahn’s in Queens NY for their “Kitchen sink” Sundae where eight of us teens would dig in and rarely be able to finish.

Wish I lived closer because that had to be really something to see and then to be able to eat it….wow, those lucky people.
You gave me an idea for out next birthday party. Not quite as big but I think the kids would love to make a giant sundae, Turkey Hill ice cream of course. Thanks for a wonderful idea.

There’s tons of fun no matter where the Turkey Hill cow shows up. Every year we love to see the cow (and her helpers) at the College of New Jersey for the Special Olympics. We will be there this weekend looking for those fantastic samples. We work a booth every year and during breaks visit the cow! Great fun.

Wish I had known about this! I sure would have come out to get me a taste of the giant ice cream sundae! 🙂 Ah well… I will content myself to celebrate with my own portion-sized sundae with TH Vanilla Bean. 😉

Reminds me of when I had a youth group. One team building activity we would do (on a smaller scale, of course) was to build or sculpt something out of ice cream. It was always hilarious and always delicious.

Hi Turkey Hill Fans, Yes when did this take place and I wish I knew before hand, so I could have gone to DC to get some of the very best ice cream. All of theat ice cream look soooooo good. I’a going to buy some Turkey Hill ice cream today.

i guess that would just about fill me up, ha ha! i am celebrating dairy and ice cream months and of course FLAG Day (my mothers birthday ) with an ice cream sundae cake, my mother will be 83 on Flag day and she sure enjoys TURKEY HILL ice cream. this will be a real surprise for her.

Would have loved to have been there. We used to make Sundaes in (clean) rain gutters lined with plastic. They were long but not high and lots of people could eat at one time! Oh the fun of being a -that was a long time ago 🙂

What a terrible time to read this article when right now I am on a diet to lose 25 pounds for a lung operation. I will have to make up for it after I get those new lungs. I love Turkey Hill Ice Cream and their Iced Tea too.

When I was pregnant with my oldest son, ice cream was about all that I could eat because of morning (more like 24 hour) sickness. Any flavor was good. ha. Well, our family dentist advised us that Dale has the hardest enamel in his teeth that he has ever seen. So the ice cream sure tasted good and was good for my son, too.

On June 13, Turkey Hill was on hand at the annual Soap Box Derby in Fredericksburg, VA, handing out free cups of ice-cream. I’m sure many feel as I do – that was a very nice gesture and very much appreciated!

These are amazing and fun events: Why not come to my location (Wilkes-barre/Scranton, PA) about 2 hours from Lancster, PA? We could use the spirit and lift in this area. Fat free/light are my favorites (usually Vanilla).

[…] curious to see what a giant ice cream sundae on the Capitol steps looks like, check out our entry from last year’s event or just take a gander at the picture at the top of this entry. As always, Turkey Hill is proud to […]

[…] curious to see what a giant ice cream sundae on the Capitol steps looks like, check out our entry from last year’s event or just take a gander at the picture at the top of this entry. As always, Turkey Hill is proud to […]

Just think of all the softened ice cream with the melted goodies at the bottom. I can just taste it now! It reminds me of when I get home from the grocery store on a hot day & I just have to taste the TH before I put it away in the garage freezer. Sometimes I taste more than I had planned on.

[…] curious to see what a giant ice cream sundae on the Capitol steps looks like, check out our entry from last year’s event or just take a gander at the picture at the top of this entry. As always, Turkey Hill is proud to […]

[…] curious to see what a giant ice cream sundae on the Capitol steps looks like, check out our entry from last year’s event or just take a gander at the picture at the top of this entry. As always, Turkey Hill is proud to […]

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